For just $50,000 plus accommodation and food, you can learn all about the plants (including wormwood, fennel etc), the process and the pleasures of real absinthe. You won't learn everything that we have: that has taken us many years of trial and error.

It's just an electronic way of talking to one's self. There's plenty of nutters on my block that do that in analog just fine, no need to get all fancy and digitalize it for other people to hear thousands of miles away.